ONLINE COURSES INFORMATION
If you are interested in any of Steve's Courses please contact us
first to see if we are able to accept new enrolments.
We will then send you the Prospectus and Enrolment Forms for your Course.
INTRODUCTION TO TAROT THERAPY
This Course serves as an Introduction to and exploration
of the theory and practice of Tarot Therapy.
It is not necessary to have any prior knowledge
or experience with the Tarot for this Course.
There are seven lessons to complete, with Handouts given for each lesson.
You work at your own pace and lessons are emailed
in and returned with comprehensive feedback.
A Certificate is awarded on completion of the Course.
CERTIFICATE IN TAROT THERAPY
This course offers a unique chance to learn how to use the Tarot
for personal development and professional therapy.
Learn how to use the Tarot and work to gain professional recognition as a Tarot Therapist.There are 12 Lessons to be completed. There is no time limit set for the Course. No prior knowledge or experience of the Tarot is required or assumed.
The Course is suitable for those wishing to become professional Tarot Therapists with a view to beginning or developing their own Consultation practice. It is also suitable for those wishing to study the Tarot simply for pleasure, to further their existing spiritual knowledge or to study and develop themselves through this medium.
It is not a Course for those wishing to learn ‘fortune-telling’.
DIPLOMA IN TAROT THERAPY
This course offers a chance to develop and deepen existing skills, knowledge and ability with the Tarot. The focus of this Course is on use of the Tarot for personal healing and development and providing professional therapeutic readings for others. The Course consists of 10 lessons, each focussing on a different aspect of working with the Tarot at an advanced level. Students may take the time they wish or need to complete each Lesson.
The Course is open to those who have completed the Certificate in Tarot Therapy Course and those who can demonstrate a working knowledge of the Tarot. The Course is therefore suitable for those wishing to develop themselves personally/spiritually/psychically, using the Tarot as the basis for this. The Course is also suitable for those who wish to establish or develop their existing Tarot reading practice.
It is not a Course for those wishing to learn ‘fortune-telling’.
TAROT THERAPY
with Philip Carr-Gomm, creator of The Druidcraft Tarot
Over seven lessons, Steve & Philip show you how you can work with the Tarot for healing and self-development. In each lesson you work with one of seven inner Tarot mentors to connect with different aspects of yourself and to address different needs, so that by the end of the course you have built up a relationship with your own 'team' of inner Tarot Mentors, whom you can always turn to for guidance.
In addition to this course there are two bonus extras: A mini-course in three parts that offers a deep-dive method of using the Tarot to resolve particularly intractable problems, and a webinar with Steve on working with the Tarot and the seasonal festivals.
BONUS CONTENT
INCLUDES CERTIFICATE, LIFE-TIME ACCESS, LIFE-TIME IN-COURSE MENTORING, LIFE-TIME MEMBERSHIP OF THE PRIVATE MAGICIANS CLUB WITH MONTHLY LIVE ZOOMS!
TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TAROT
with Philip Carr-Gomm, creator of The Druidcraft Tarot
The Tarot is well-known for its use as an oracle that can tell us of the potentials and risks the future may bring. But the Tarot can also be used to help us transform - to help us grow and change and become of more use to others and ourselves.
In this multi-media course that uses video, audio and text, Tarot teachers Philip Carr-Gomm and Steve Hounsome show you how you can use this ancient system for self-transformation, working with the Major Arcana as archetypes to enrich the soul, with the Court Cards as keys to developing the personality, and with the pip cards of the Minor Arcana offering insights into the ways our souls and personalities can work together and express themselves in the world.
BONUS EXTRA COURSE
If you enroll, you also get access to a special two-part learning experience with Philip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm, creators of The Druidcraft Tarot. In two classes, Philip and Stephanie take you through 'Integrative Tarot Training' - a way of working with the Tarot that is quick and easy to learn. And they show you a way to 'drill down' into really difficult issues to gain clarity and healing
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MENTORING AND YOUR PRIVATE CLUB
As well as all this, you'll also be able to ask questions about your work with the course at any time, and the course fee also includes membership of The Private Magicians' Club - a wonderful online resource and community for the spiritual seeker and Tarot enthusiast. In the warm and friendly atmosphere of the club, Philip, Steve, and guests host live online sessions of meditation, exploration and discussion.
THE ENERGY BODY IN TAROT
with Philip Carr-Gomm, creator of The Druidcraft Tarot
This Course now lives at Global Spiritual Studies under a new name: The Energy Body in Tarot: A Guided Practice Through the Seven Chakras. The new title reflects something Philip and I always felt about this work. It was never simply a journey through the chakras. It is a practice. A way of meeting the energy body through the living imagery of the Tarot, and carrying that meeting forward into your life.
What the Course Teaches
At the heart of the course is a framework we call the Three Septenaries. It's a way of understanding how all 78 Tarot cards participate in the journey of body, mind, and spirit through the seven chakras.
If you've worked with Tarot for any length of time, you've likely sensed that something deeper connects the cards. Not just the traditional suits or numerical sequences, but a living structure. The Three Septenaries is that structure. It maps the 21 Major Arcana across the seven chakras in three realms, and it reveals how the Minor Arcana and Court Cards complete the picture.
This isn't a chart to memorise. Over nine lessons, from the root chakra to the crown, you build your own relationship with the framework through guided meditation, personal reflection, and direct experience with the cards. Each lesson includes a meditation set to original sound healing music by The Mind Orchestra, composed using planetary frequency drones tuned to the resonance of each chakra. These aren't background tracks. They're functional, and many students have told us the meditations alone were worth the enrolment.
By the end, you'll have developed your own set of eleven-card chakra sub-decks (three Major Arcana plus eight Minor Arcana per chakra) and completed a 21-card Closing Chakra System Reading that maps your entire energy body. It works with any deck.
What's New in This Version
Global Spiritual Studies has upgraded the course in several meaningful ways:
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Subtitles in eleven languages, opening the work to a much wider audience
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An end-of-course quiz and Certificate of Completion for those who want formal recognition
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Two live Q&A sessions with Philip and me, where you can bring your questions directly. Both sessions will be recorded for anyone who can't attend live.
Why This Work Matters to Me
I've spent my career asking one question, in various forms: Where in your body do you feel it?
In the treatment room, that question opens doors that analysis cannot. When someone draws a card and I ask them not what they think it means but where they feel it, something shifts. The body speaks before the mind can organise a response. A tightness in the chest. A warmth in the belly. Something unnamed at the base of the throat.
The Tarot has always been an instrument of the energy body. The images speak to something older than language. They move energy. They open what's been closed. They illuminate what's been hidden. When you combine that with the map of the chakras, you have a practice that doesn't just describe transformation. It creates the conditions for it.
That's what Philip and I set out to build. And I believe that's what we've built.
Explore the Course
If you've been curious about this work, or if you've been waiting for the right moment to begin, I invite you to take a look at what Philip and I have created together.
You can also try the free Tarot and Chakra Quiz to see where your energy body is most active:
https://globalspiritualstudies.com/tarot-chakra-quiz/
The full course is here:
I look forward to sharing this practice with you.
THE SEEKERS QUEST
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This Course gives you the chance to follow your own, personal ‘Journey of the Fool’. The Major Arcana cards of the Tarot are traditionally seen as a journey to personal enlightenment, awareness and completion. In this sense each card illustrates a lesson or stage of learning and experience on that Journey.
This Course follows that structure, using a variety of exercises, techniques and guided meditations for each card. Each persons’ experience is unique to them
and you will receive detailed feedback and comments on each lesson, utilising
Steve’s 40 years’ experience with the Tarot.
The Major Arcana of the Tarot gives us worldly, personal and spiritual knowledge like nothing else and through this Course you can realise your own view and experience of the Universe and your place in it. You do not even need any previous knowledge or experience of the Tarot at all.
This is a Tarot Course unlike any other. Through it you can discover the treasure that awaits you when you complete your own Quest.
THE 'STORY OF YOUR SOUL'-
A COURSE OF PAST LIFE DISCOVERY AND LEARNING
This is a unique course that offers you the chance to learn and tell ‘The Story of Your Soul’, by discovering and charting your Past Lives. Taking the position that we are a Soul within a different body in each lifetime, this Course enables you to discover the purpose of both your previous and current lifetimes, even taking a look at a resulting future lifetime. This Course can then be likened to reading your own Akashic Record, from cover to cover, on which much work is done.
The study of our Past Lives, whilst it is a fascinating subject, has the purpose and intent of allowing you to realise and integrate the meaning and lessons of each life, into the current life and self. This can result in you becoming a more complete individual, fully aware of why you are here at this time and what you need to learn and achieve through your life. Through this Course you can become more whole and in control of your destiny.
There are many aspects of interest and use that Past Life work can bring. Apart from the discovery of the purpose of your life, relationships with loved ones, successful and ‘failed’, easy and difficult, past and present, can also be revealed. Through Past Life work, we can come to know who it is we have lived with before, in what capacity and why. In this way, you can achieve understanding, progress and fulfilment of relationships with people in your current life.